Can’t Win Me Back by Ginger Sue

Tatiana felt like she was being plunged into an icy abyss, with a hurricane of cold sweeping through her chest. The flush of embarrassment on her cheeks drained away, leaving her face pale.

As she looked into Sinead's tear-filled eyes, she saw through her pretense and detected the disdain in her heart.

In the past, she might have turned and fled, hiding in a corner and wallowing in self-pity and tears. But this time, an inexplicable courage surged within her—a courage to face the Lynches directly.

She loved Sean. That was all.

Was love wrong? Why should she bow down to them?

If she ran away in disgrace now, wouldn't she be tacitly agreeing that what Sinead said was true?

"Ms. Tatiana, do you understand what I'm saying?" Sinead still appeared frail and helpless, but her tone was icy.

Sean's shoulders trembled with anger. The veins in his neck bulged as if about to burst. "You can vent your anger at me! How dare you speak to the woman I love like this? What has Taty done to deserve this treatment from you?"

your mother like that? This is absurd!" Spencer finally couldn't hold back

transformation of his usually obedient and considerate youngest son, who now found himself in conflict with the entire family

capable of capturing men's hearts, was too intimidating. She had diverted his son's attention entirely. If she continued to manipulate Sean like this, he

"What did I do? I was just having a woman-to-woman chat with Ms.

Alyssa, you're still his flesh and blood.

shouldn't force him to choose

buzz filled Sean's mind. Under tremendous anger, his vision of Sinead's

had raised him with love and

and a desire for

did this maternal love become

Spencer's pupils contracted slightly.

also felt that his wife's words were too much. But if she didn't act like this,